True, but there must be very few departments that are unable to book those #
clinic appointments directly from ED. The mechanism could be from ED to ED.
The reality is that patients turning up in the ED with notes and x-rays
having been told to get an OPD appointment do get one.
Simon
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Subject: Re: Patients Charter for Tourists
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> > Perhaps an option for a position statement? They do not have to be
purely
> clinical. Or is too
> > trivial?
>
> Fracture clinics are run mainly by orthos rather than A and E, so we'd be
> telling another specialty how to do their job. Look at how annoyed some
> people in A and E get/ how much it is ignored when another specialty does
> that to us. Not sure whether whether this is an argument for or against
the
> position statement.
>
> Matt Dunn
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